1916] Cole — New Species of Asilidae 65 



Lasiopogon drabicolum sp. nov. (Plate VIII, fig. 3). 



cf , 9 . Length, 8-9 mm. Ground color black. Densely gray 

 pollinose. The pollen of head and thorax with a yellowish tinge. 

 A great deal of white pile on the body. Ocellar bristles black 

 and white mixed and very slender. Occipito orbitals black. One 

 black bristle above on second joint of antenna. The rest of the 

 antennal bristles fine and white in color. Two very faint brown 

 stripes on thoracic dorsum of 9 • Two dark brown widely sep- 

 arated stripes on thorax of d^, wide at the shoulders and nar- 

 rowing toward the center of the dorsum where it disappears. Pile 

 of palpi white. In both cf and 9 the pile of front is white and 

 black mixed. Short white pile on thorax. Abdomen covered 

 with short whitish oppressed pile, longer at lateral margins. The 

 mystax black and white and quite heavy. Eighth abdominal 

 segment of 9 polished black. A circlet of black bristles on gen- 

 italia. Scutellum flat, with a semi-circular impressed line as in 

 arenicola. Several spines on margin of scutellum, the stronger 

 ones long, black and upcurving. Hypopygium black, slightly 

 pollinose, and covered with white pile and black hair. Legs black, 

 gray pollinose, with white pile and slender black bristles. Tarsi of 

 cf dark reddish brown almost black in front. Tarsi of 9 blackish. 

 Wings grayish hyaline with brownish black veins. Venation 

 normal, the anal cell closed. Anterior crossvein not much before 

 middle of discal cell. In these specimens all the posterior cells 

 wide open. 



Type—V. S. N. M., Cat. No. 20183. One male and one female 

 specimen. 



i/a6i7a^— Redlands, Cal., 1913. 



These small robberflies were collected on wild flowers, and one of 

 them was observed capturing a small cecidomyiid. 



Metapogon pictum sp. nov. (Plate IX, fig. 5). 



cf . Length, 7 mm. General color black. First two segments 

 of antennae black, gray pruinose. Thorax grayish pollinose, the 

 vittse brown in color and coalescing. The brown markings vary 

 in different specimens. Some of the spots are golden brown in 

 color. In some specimens the brown markings do not extend to 



